Re: How to prevent malware from running on your PC

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
<pan.2005.12.29.11.53.21.886690@yahoo.co.uk>, Geoff wrote:

> Leythos wrote:

>> In most cases, many home users won't miss the Floppy, but many business
>> users and many technical types will. I always order the Floppy with any
>> PC I order.

We don't. We only use a floppy for maintenance or the initial install, and
the floppy comes out once that is done.

> Me too. When working on anything important I make copies to floppy every
> couple of minutes - has saved my bacon many times over the years. And the
> cost is pennies.

We save to a network server - still a single point of failure, but it's
more reliable that any user controlled hardware. The other problem is that
the typical document being saved is getting larger - especially those saved
in crayon. An HR type mentioned we received a resume - a single page written
in MS Turd that was 7.6 Megabyte. It contained 3 bit-images of various
versions of the resume - that contained 40 lines of text, about 70 characters
to the line, or 2,800 bytes. Needless to say, it made everyone laugh.

        Old guy
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:40:03 2006